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Death in Girotondo

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ke9icEBIGCU" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] Angela Grimaldi is in danger. A hair raising moment of rebellion and Angelas circumstances change forever. Escaping the horror of a loveless marriage, Angela tries to start anew, but will she be able to build a new life in the watchful, traditional community in which she lives. Death [...]

[ More ] July 25th, 2009 | View Comments | Posted in blur Group, blur Media |

The Future of Fairtrade

The definition of Fairtrade is clear: “Fairtrade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers and workers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system. If fair access to markets under better trade conditions would help them to overcome barriers to development, [...]

The Future of Crowdsourcing – Small

Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly accepted term with examples bandied about such as Google using the analysis of Web links to crowdsource their search engine, Wikipedia crowdsourcing the planet to build the largest encyclopedia and Threadless crowdsourcing approaching a million people to design t-shirts. But what is the future of crowdsourcing? Well, we think it’s [...]

Why blur Group is Important

As blur Group gets more of a following we increasingly get asked why what we are doing is important. It is both a fundamental and complex question to answer. I have spent the last ten years building large communities and marketplaces on the Web – consumer facing, business facing and some that mash both up. [...]